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Originally Posted by Scott McD
We are cutting all services here, yet we just sent another £650 million to Pakistan for some reason.
You couldn't make the shit up...
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come on ... that cannot be true ...
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Sesame Street comes to Pakistan
US government aid agency sponsors
$20m Pakistani remake of the American kids' TV show
There's no Cookie Monster, no Big Bird and no Count von Count.
But Pakistani children will soon start experiencing what millions in the west have done for more than four decades ? the joys of Sesame Street.
In a
$20m (£12m) remake of the classic American children's programme, the setting for the show has moved from the streets of New York to a lively
village in Pakistan with a roadside tea and snacks stall, known as a dhaba, some fancy houses with overhanging balconies along with simple dwellings, and residents hanging out on their verandas.
The Pakistani version, in which characters will speak mostly in
Urdu, will feature Rani, a cute six-year-old Muppet, the child of a peasant farmer, with pigtails, flowers in her hair and a smart blue-and-white school uniform. Her curiosity and questions about the world will, it is hoped, make her a
role model for Pakistani children.
The financing for the series comes from USAid, the
economic assistance arm of the US government, which aims to help the country's young learn some basic words and numbers through Sesame Street's fun style of education. Pakistan's schooling system is failing badly, a major reason for a descent into
religious conservatism and economic stagnation.
and it continues .... :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...an?INTCMP=SRCH